Harris-Perry: Deportation Raids Are ‘A Fugitive Slave Law’

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry compared the Obama administration’s deportation raids to fugitive slave laws while discussing illegal immigrants in Flint, MI during her show on Saturday.

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Harris-Perry said, “I don’t want the Obama administration’s final year to be marred by a fugitive slave law, around the question of this deportation that leads, in the context of Flint, to actual children being actually poisoned by lead because their parents are too afraid to open the door for clean water.”